Qualla: Tanglewood Park https://qualla.com/tanglewood-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tanglewood Park https://qualla.com/tanglewood-park Tanglewood Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/tanglewood-park/ Pull onto the long drive at Tanglewood Park in mid-December and the entrance flares to life. More than a million bulbs trace the contours of four miles of road, animating reindeer, illuminating arches, picking out the silhouette of the old Manor House on its hill. The Festival of Lights began in 1992 with twenty-five displays on a mile-and-a-half loop. It is now one of the largest holiday light shows in the Southeast. But the lights are the most recent layer in a place whose deeper story runs through Moravian neighbors, a fort on the Yadkin, a tobacco fortune, harness racing, and a charter that turned the park into a federal court case before it could ever truly belong to everyone.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/u/tanglewood-park-wp/dnqu-tanglewood-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tanglewood Park: A Yadkin Valley Outpost https://qualla.com/tanglewood-park/ In 1757, four years after Moravian missionaries founded the nearby settlements of Bethabara and Salem on the Wachovia Tract, a Welsh immigrant named William Johnson bought the square-mile heart of what is now the park. The Ellis family had held it briefly under a remarkable lease...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/u/tanglewood-park-wp/dnqu-tanglewood-park-a-yadkin-valley-outpost.mp3 0:06 2 full Tanglewood Park: Mr. Will https://qualla.com/tanglewood-park/ In 1859, James Johnson built an eighteen-room Manor House on the central hill as a wedding gift for his daughter Emily. The Johnson heirs sold the property in 1921 to William Neal Reynolds, brother of the tobacco entrepreneur R. J. Reynolds. Mr. Will, as he was known, expanded th...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/u/tanglewood-park-wp/dnqu-tanglewood-park-mr-will.mp3 0:06 3 full Tanglewood Park: A Gift With Conditions https://qualla.com/tanglewood-park/ The Reynolds couple had no children. In 1951, they willed Tanglewood to the citizens of Forsyth County as a public recreational park. The gift carried a condition. Will Reynolds had specified that the property was to be used only for the benefit of white citizens, or the ownershi...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/u/tanglewood-park-wp/dnqu-tanglewood-park-a-gift-with-conditions.mp3 0:06 4 full Tanglewood Park: The Golf and the Lights https://qualla.com/tanglewood-park/ Tanglewood has two golf courses: the Championship Course, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., and the Reynolds Course. The Championship Course hosted the 1974 PGA Championship, won by Lee Trevino with Jack Nicklaus a single stroke back, in one of the closer Sunday afternoons in m...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/u/tanglewood-park-wp/dnqu-tanglewood-park-the-golf-and-the-lights.mp3 0:06 5 full Tanglewood Park: Lights On https://qualla.com/tanglewood-park/ The Festival of Lights began in 1992, funded by a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Charitable Trust and money raised by the Tanglewood Park Foundation. From its first season of twenty-five displays on a 1.5-mile route, it has grown to roughly 180 displays, seventy of them animate...

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